Rahul Kumar

Building AI Products | Generative AI | Deep Learning | Reinforcement Learning Enthusiast | Freelancer

Address: Gurugram, Haryana, India
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulkr97

Dedicated researcher familiar with Deep Learning and Computer Vision. Well-coordinated in developing, deploying Machine
Learning models , designing end to end ML/ DL architecture. Brings 4 years of Industry Experience in Machine Learning,
Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Data Mining and 1 year of Research Assistant in Computer Vision and Gesture Recognition.
GitHub : www.github.com/dantecomedia

EXPERIENCE
Cognavi India, Remote 1 year 4 months

Senior Manager Data Scientist January 2023 - April 2024

1. Generative Models 2. Large Data Pipelines , MLOPs 3. Recommendation Engine 4. Predictive Modeling 5. AWS Tech stack

AI Lead April 2024 - Present

XA Group, Dubai October 2022 - December 2022

Senior Data Scientist
High paying Computer Vision role,worked for just 2 months. Left because of : 1. Toxic Work Culture 2. Broken tech stack and
messy data pipelines 3. Imbalance work life, Worked till midnight and on Weekends. 4. The director of AI is the reason you
won't want to work for this company.

Elevate AI, San Francisco Bay Area July 2022 - December 2022
Chief AI | Founding Team

Laytrip, United States November 2020 - December 2022

Data Science Manager | Founding Team
Founding Data Scientist and Core team member. 1. Build the data foundation for the company, aggregating over 900 Million -
1.2 Billion rows of airfare data on BigQuery, GCP. 2. Build and Scaled Arbitrage Model, taking arbitrage profit in ticket booking.
3. Got patent for the arbitrage model 4. Predicitve Booking, Automatic Booking, Recommendation Engine

uzo.io, Prague July 2020 - August 2021

Deep Learning and Computer Vision Engineer
Product Categorization using Computer Vision and NLP
1. Handled over a 8.9Million products with over 30+ categories, 1600+ Sub Categories and 5000+ Child Categories. 2. Used
transformers, Bert and Xgboost to yield over 93% for Principal Product Categorization and 85% on sub categories 3. Developed
Computer Vision and NLP models for Product Image classification followed by Decision fusion 4. Deployed API with average
latency ~0.7s, on AWS Lambda

Data Is Good, India May 2019 - November 2020

Data Scientist | Founding Team
Founding Data Scientist. Started with the core team of 3, build the initial course curriculum and projects and MVP. The
company did fairly well from initial students from 10 to 5000 during my tenure of work.

Upwork April 2019 - November 2020

Deep Learning and Computer Vision Engineer
Top Talent, 100% Job Score, 16+ International clients.

Stealth Startup, London August 2020 - October 2020

Lead AI Engineer
1. Scrapped over 3,00,000 instances of car data from gum tree, craiglist, motors.co.uk , autotrader 2. Deployed Car Valuation
estimation from different attributes based on car model, mileage, brand, transmission, etc 3. Deployed Stock and revenue
prediction (like peak.ai)
DataPulley, Israel August 2020 - September 2020
Data Scientist
1. Scrapped ~96,000 UPC products from online stores for food ingredients 2. Built Automatic Data Normalization from
Different source deployed on AWS S3 bucket 3. Designed and deployed Machine Learning models for nutrient detection like
Gluten-Non Gluten, GMO-NonGMO, Fat freeFat models. 4. Model precision and recall rate over ~88%

ScienceDirect June 2020 - July 2020

Peer Reviewer IMU, EVISE
Peer Reviewer for the Machine Learning and Deep Learning papers in IMU, EVISE.

EDUCATION
Caltech February 2023 - Present
Postgraduate, Data Science , Machine Learning

CERTIFICATIONS
Mathematics for Machine Learning March 2020 - Present
Imperial College London
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Structuring Machine Learning Projects October 2019 - Present

DeepLearning.AI
Credential ID: MSZFA33SYXNJ
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Deep Learning in Computer Vision June 2019 - Present

National Research University — Higher School of Economics

Introduction to Deep Learning June 2019 - Present

National Research University — Higher School of Economics

Natural Language Processing June 2019 - Present

National Research University — Higher School of Economics

Practical Reinforcement Learning June 2019 - Present

National Research University — Higher School of Economics

Machine Learning Present

Stanford University
Credential ID: V58UQVUXWFXW
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Addressing Large Hadron Collider Challenges by Machine Present

Learning
National Research University — Higher School of Economics

Algorithmic Toolbox Present

UC San Diego
Credential ID: TXG9RHMLGKSE
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Bayesian Method for Machine Learning Present

National Research University — Higher School of Economics

Cryptography Present
Stanford University
Credential ID: PWEBKMWNPRDJ
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Game Theory Present

How to Win a Data Science Competition: Learn from Top Kagglers Present
National Research University — Higher School of Economics

Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Present

Learning, and Deep Learning!
DeepLearning.AI
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning Present

DeepLearning.AI
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Sequence Models Present

DeepLearning.AI
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PROJECTS
Heart Disease Prediction Using Deep Learning February 2019

Churn Modelling using ANN January 2019

AUTOMATIC IRRIGATION SYSTEM May 2017

USED MICROCONTROLLER TO AUTOMATE AND USING SOIL MOISTURE SENSOR TO RECORD THE WATER DOWNFALL

Abalone Age Prediction

Using Regression analysis

Disease Prediction Using Deep Learning

Using Keras to predict disease based on given Symptoms. The idea was to make it run the DL model on a Raspberry pi to
make it a prototype utility device

Doct+
A web and andriod based app integrated with deep learning to give a probability analysis of different underlying disease

Dog Breed Identification

Identifying dog breed from 120 breeds of dog . Using CNN

Fraud Detection Using SOM

Unsupervised Deep Learning

Glass Type Prediction

Using Decision Tree , KNN

Google Stock Prediction using RNN

Predicting Google stock price using Recurrent Neural Network

Hepatitis Prediction
Using KNN algorithm with varying neighbor parameter

Indian Liver Disease prediction using Logistic Regression

Parasite Disease Detection from Blood Smear Images using Custom CNN model
PUBLICATIONS
Smart Grid Energy Management Using RNN-LSTM: A Deep January 2019
Learning-based Approach
IEEE, 37th Globecom Coneference, 2019, Hawaii, USA

Malaria Detection Using Custom Convolutional Neural Network January 2019

Model on Blood Smear Slide Images
International Conference on Advanced Informatics for Computing
Research ICAICR 2019: Advanced Informatics for Computing Research

HONORS
Machine Learning : Predict the power (KW/h) produced from the May 2021
windmills
Hacker Earth
Rank : 7 out of 391 World Wide
Problem statement
It is the year 2021 and we are at the verge of a massive climatic change. With global warming at its peak and fossil fuels
inching towards its extinction, it is the need of the hour to step up and take responsibility for our planet. Developing
countries all over the world are making a shift towards a cleaner energy source and are looking at ways to expand their global
energy source power.
Switching to renewable energy sources is a great way to reduce dependency on imported fuels and increase cost efficiency. It
is time we move towards a low-carbon future by embracing solar, hydro, geothermal energy and so on, to protect mother
nature.
An efficient energy source that has been gaining popularity around the world is wind turbines. Wind turbines generate power
by capturing the kinetic energy of the wind. Factors such as temperature, wind direction, turbine status, weather, blade length,
and so on influence the amount of power generated.
Task
You are appointed by an environmentalist for their Non Government Organization as a climate warrior who comes to the
rescue. Your task is to build a sophisticated Machine Learning model that predicts the power that is generated (in KW/h)
based on the various features provided in the dataset.

Google Hash Code 2021 April 2021

Google
All India Rank ~1643, World Rank ~5000 out of 12,000 teams

Reduce marketing waste April 2021

Hacker Earth
Rank : 18 out 717 participant worldwide
Problem Statement You want to reduce marketing waste and aim your marketing initiatives only at those customers who will
benefit from your product. This will result in the following:
Increased business New customers who are compatible with your organization Seamless transactions with a higher success
rate More profit with fewer obstacles Task Your company has products that can be used for hiring assessments. Your task is
to predict the probability percentage that a client will purchase a product from the features provided in the dataset that is
given.

HackerEarth Machine Learning Challenge: How NOT to lose a March 2021

Customer
HackerEarth
Rank : 30 out of 1317 participants world wide
Problem statement
No business can thrive without it’s customers. On the flip side, customers leaving the business is a nightmare that every
business owner dreads!
In fact, one of the key metrics to measure a business’ success is by measuring its customer churn rate - the lower the churn,
the more loved the company is.
Typically, every user of a product or a service is assigned a prediction value that estimates their state of churn at any given
time. This value may be based on multiple factors such as the user’s demographic, their browsing behavior and historical
purchase data, among other details.
 This value factors in unique and proprietary predictions of how long a user will remain a customer and is updated every day
for all users who have purchased at least one of the products/services. The values assigned are between 1 and 5.
Task
An up-and-coming startup is keen on reducing its customer churn and has hired you as a Machine Learning engineer for this
task. As an expert, you are required to build a sophisticated Machine Learning model that predicts the churn score for a
website based on multiple features.

HackerEarth Machine Learning challenge: Calculate the air April 2020

pollution index
Hackerearth
Rank : 19 out of 1192 (Top 1.5%) Score : 91.51511

Google Hash Code 2020 February 2020

Google
228th rank in India and 1942nd in the world out of 10724 teams and 1,00,000 participants world wide in the Google Hash Code
2020 Online Qualification Round

Aerial Cactus Identification June 2019

Kaggle
141st / 1085 Teams, Top 13%

Tyachons Machine Learning Hackathon April 2019

Tyachons Organization
Gold Medalist, Rank 1 amongst 60+ teams participating in Machine Learning Hackathon.

Microsoft Student Chapter Thapar University February 2019

Microsoft Student Chapter
Special Categorical Prize Winner , Shortlisted for Internship, Certificate of Appreciation

Fuse LM Lab Universal One Fit X-Ray Adapter Challenge April 2017
Letter of Appreciation from Local Motors, GE for designing a Universal X-Ray adapter which fits all in one different X-Ray
panel from different manufacturers.

INTERNATIONAL OLYMPAID OF SCIENCE January 2012

AIR 747

VOLUNTEERING
The Indian Science Congress Association January 2019 - January 2019
SCIENCE_AND_TECHNOLOGY
Coordinator of Registration Volunteer